The sexual development and behavior of 37 women suffering from the gonadal dysgenesis syndrome were investigated. It was found that their sexual development was significantly retarded compared with a control group of 50 fertile patients of the same age. This retardation was greater in a subgroup of 19 women with the Turner syndrome than in a subgroup of 18 women with pure gonadal dysgenesis. The levels of gonadotrophins LH and FSH, estradiol, progesterone and testosterone in blood were similar in these two subgroups. In two-thirds of the gonadal dysgenesis syndrome patients, the estradiol level was mostly at the low end of normal. The assessment of their sexual life using the Sexual Activity of Women (SAW) and Sexual Function of Women (SFW) questionnaires indicated a lower sexual desire, a reduced orgastic capacity, and a weaker sexual activity in the pathological group. However, 24 patients living in a permanent and stable partner relationship at the time of the examination, did not significantly differ from the control group in their responses to the SFW questionnaire. The patients with gonadal dysgenesis syndrome were surprisingly well adapted to their shortcomings. The occurrence and intensity of most neurotic symptoms assessed by the N5 Questionnaire were scored lower by the patients with gonadal dysgenesis syndrome than by the control group.

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Sexual aggressivity and androgens.

Male sex hormones are ascribed a great importance in the literature from the point of view of sexual activity and aggressive behaviour. Two cases of sexually motivated murder are described, committed by delinquents with low levels of testosterone in plasma: one a patient with Klinefelter's syndrome; the other a man after castration. Even a decreased level of androgens, either primary or secondary, is not an absolute prevention of sexually aggressive behaviour.

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[Hormone findings in women with gonadal dysgenesis].

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[Reproduction medicine--a new area of medicine].

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PubMed1986

Sexual development and life of psychiatric female patients.

Using a structured interview and four questionnaires we examined the sexual development and life in the following groups of psychiatric female patients: 51 with schizophrenia, 50 with manic-depressive psychoses, 50 with neuroses, 30 with hysterical psychopathic personality, and 20 with anorexia nervosa. The results were compared with a control group of 101 gynecological spa patients. The sexual development of the schizophrenic patients was found to be retarded, whereas that of the patients with anorexia nervosa accelerated in the initial stages. The sexual development of patients with hysterical personality was found to be disharmonious. No differences were found between patients with manic-depressive psychoses and the control group as far as the sex life in adulthood is concerned. However, all the other groups of psychiatric patients showed decreased sexual activity and/or reactivity. Sexual dysfunctions in the female psychiatric population are frequent, especially with schizophrenic patients, females with anorexia nervosa, and with hysterical personality. The etiological factors responsible for these sex disturbances are different in the individual groups of psychiatric patients.

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PubMed1986

[Some factors which modify the ability of the female to achieve orgasm].

Between 1952 and 1984 a sexological study was conducted among 2,159 gynecologic patients who had been referred to Franzensbad for treatment. All the women had been married for at least one year. Their ages ranged from 21 to 40. The number of women those born between 1911 and 1960 who frequently achieved orgasm has increased. Women with late menarch (from age 16 onward) generally were less able to achieve orgasm than those with menarche at age 11. The average age at menarch among women born between 1911 and 1920 was 13.92 years. Among women born after 1950 it was 13.06 years. Within the same period of time the age at which the first coitus took place dropped from 20.75 to 17.92 years. The average age at which the first coitus occurred increases commensurately with age at menarche. Statistically, women who experienced orgasm began their full sex-life significantly earlier than those with low orgasm ability or anorgasmy. On average, women with only elementary school education first had sexual intercourse earlier than those who had attended a higher school and sat a school-leaving examination. Only 7% of the women born after 1950 had grown up in families with 6 or more children, while this was the case for a quarter of the women surveyed who were born between 1911 and 1920. The findings described support the view that the positive changes in women's sex-lives are influenced by the simultaneous effect of biological and psychosocial factors.

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Number of siblings and birth order of sexually dysfunctional males and sexual delinquents.

We compared the number of siblings and the birth order of a group of 600 sexually dysfunctional males with those of groups of sexual delinquents. The sexual delinquents included: 238 sexual aggressors, 249 exhibitionists, 437 pedophilic and 57 homosexual delinquents. We found that patients treated for sexual dysfunctions had a significantly higher incidence of only-children than each of the sexually delinquent groups. Pedophilic and homosexual delinquents were more frequently the last of three or more children, a difference that was significant when compared with the sexually dysfunctional men.

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PubMed1986